Ben is a film director working across narrative, installation and commercial disciplines.

Ben’s award winning work is often praised for its distinctive approach. He forms delicately crafted visual images whilst eliciting honest human performances from the heart of his stories. His work is cinematic in style and his technical eye always enables a beautiful yet highly contemporary aesthetic.

He has directed commercial campaigns for global brands Qantas, Westfield, Sony Ericsson, Lee Cooper Denim and high end accessories brand Benah to name a few. He has won numerous awards including the Silver SHOTS Young Director Award at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival (2009) followed by the New Director Award at Adfest. Other commercial projects he directed have picked up numerous awards including Spikes, Clio’s and two Silver Medals at the Phoenix Awards and a Gold at the New York Festivals’ International Advertising and Television and Film Awards.

Ben’s personal film projects often feature his ongoing preoccupation with the themes of identity and memory. Most notably Apricot, Some Static Started and Castor & Pollux. The films went on to gain notoriety for Briand with Apricot garnering a huge online cult following upon release, eventually being voted Best Narrative film on Vimeo by a community of over 3 million users. The same year he received a nomination for Best Director by the Australian Director’s Guild for Some Static Started.

At the end of 2013 Ben was invited to join prestigious multidisciplinary collective Collider Films who commercially represent him in Australia.

His most recently completed short film Blood Pulls A Gun will have it’s world premiere at the 2014 SXSW Film Festival in competition for the Grand Jury Award.